Governor Wallgren signed Medical-Dental Bill to authorize formation of UW Schools of Medicine and Dentistry
On Mar. 1, 1945, Governor Monard C. Wallgren signed the Medical-Dental Bill which authorized the formation of University…
On Mar. 1, 1945, Governor Monard C. Wallgren signed the Medical-Dental Bill which authorized the formation of University…
Feb 8, 1945, Ancel Keyes, M.D. wrote on the founding of the University of Minnesota’s Laboratory of Physiologic…
On Jan. 25, 1945, at 4:00 p.m., Grand Rapids, Michigan, achieved a historic milestone by becoming the inaugural…
In 1945, the inactivated influenza vaccine was first licensed in the U.S. The first vaccine was an inactivated,…
In 1945, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation was founded by a group…
In 1945, June Lindsey joined W. H. Taylor’s x-ray crystallography team at the Cavendish Laboratory, home to the…
In 1945, Karl Habel and John Enders isolated the mumps virus. Habel and Enders had successfully cultivated the…
In 1945, Dr. William Hamilton of the Medical College of Georgia invented the Hamilton Manometer to measure blood…
In 1945, Cheplin Laboratories was renamed Bristol Laboratories and Frederic N. Schwartz was put in charge. Bristol-Myers bought…
In 1945, the University of Alabama’s Medical College moved from moved from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham. The University of…
In 1945, The University of Oregon Dental School opened its doors. The School of Dentistry shared the mission…
In 1945, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) was founded by scientists who had worked on the Manhattan…
In 1945, Alcon was founded in Fort Worth by pharmacists Robert Alexander and William Conner. The company was…
In 1945, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Ian Heilbron, “to recognize distinguished services to…
In 1945, the American Society for the Control of Cancer renamed American Cancer Society.
In 1945, the Red Cross ended its World War II blood program for the military after collecting more…
In 1945, the Coombs test, or antiglobulin test, was first developed. It was named after Robin Coombs who,…
In 1945, Karl Habel cultivated mumps virus in embryonated eggs and devised serological tests for its presence. Habel…
In 1945, W. Ray Bryan, Michael B. Shimkin, Howard B. Andervont, Herbert Kahler and Thelma B. Dunn published…
In 1945, scientists Ralph W. G. Wyckoff of the University of Michigan Department of Epidemiology and Robley Williams…
In 1945, Frederick J. Brady and colleagues pioneered the use of radioisotopes in pharmacology, especially to identify the…
In 1945, the U.S. Congress passed the Penicillin Amendment, modeled on the earlier Insulin Amendment. The former required…
On Nov. 17, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote a letter to to Vannevar Bush, head of the…
On Sept. 22, 1944, the War Department General Order Number 76 officially redesignated Fort Lewis General Hospital as…
In 1944, the the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to James B. Conant “to recognize distinguished…
On Jul. 1, 1944, the Public Health Service Act, P.L. 410, 78th Congress, provided that “The National Cancer…
On Jul. 1, 1944, the Public Health Service Act was codified and established the quarantine authority of the…
On Jun. 17, 1944, the Midwest Research Institute, now known as MRI Global, was incorporated. Today, MRIGlobal is…
On May. 1, 1944, Paul B. Dunbar, Ph.D., becomes Commissioner of Food and Drugs. His tenure as commissioner…
In 1944, the Baruch Center of Physical Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia was organized with a…